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    "id": 551153,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/551153/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir. Security is the right of every Kenyan. The security situation in north eastern counties is very worrying, to say the least. The education sector that the Chairman represents is totally paralyzed in the north eastern counties from Garissa to Wajir – primary, secondary and tertiary. This is the only college that is open. Next month we are voting Kshs210 billion to security and that is this year alone. It hurts the people of north eastern counties who are residents in this country and are required to assist the Government in fighting terrorists, yet their children in primary and secondary schools and colleges are now at home because there are no teachers and the institutions have been shut down. Mr. Speaker Sir, what happened in Garissa University College was a disaster but the Government through the Ministry of education has now decided – and I want the chairman to clarify that point – to completely close down the college and move it back to Moi University in Eldoret. This is the only university in that region. Even the Westgate Mall where dozens of people were killed, has since been rehabilitated and is due for re-opening next month. The Government cannot abandon its people by shutting down the only institutions in this area. Can he confirm and undertake that the Ministry of Education will release the capital expenditure for Garissa University, so that even as the"
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